The Legal Job Search: Young Attorneys

For new attorneys searching for a legal internship or their first legal job, it is often difficult to know where to begin. FindLaw’s The Legal Job Search: Young Attorneys addresses this issue and the many other questions that can arise when undertaking your first job search like: landing a summer internship, how to overcome mediocre grades, where to start searching, what personnel directors are looking for, getting companies to hire you, and finding non-legal jobs, to list just a few. Read further to find the right strategies to jump-start your legal career.

I'm a rising 2L who is also pursuing a master's degree in labor and industrial relations. The LIR degree will take an extra semester to complete, making my expected graduation date 12/03 instead of 5/03 like the rest of my class.

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